Borrowed fromLatinaddictus, past participle ofaddīcō(“deliver; devote; surrender”), fromad-(“to, towards, at”) +dīcō(“say; declare”)
addict (pluraladdicts)
- A person who isaddicted, especially to aharmfuldrug.
a heroinaddict
He is anaddict when it comes to chocolate cookies.
2006 June 25, Benoit Denizet-Lewis, “An Anti-Addiction Pill?”, inThe New York Times Magazine[1]:Those nonaddicts who picked a winning card had increased blood flow to the striatum, but the gamblingaddicts who picked the right card had much less of it (their reward system was less active).
2011 August 1, Richard A. Friedman, “Who Falls to Addiction, and Who Is Unscathed?”, inThe New York Times[2]:A stressful environment in which there is ready access to drugs can trump a low genetic risk of addiction in these animals. The same may be true for humans, too. And that’s a notion many find hard to believe: Just about anyone, regardless of baseline genetic risk, can become anaddict under the right circumstances.
- Anadherent orfan (of something).
person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug
- Amharic:ሱሰኛ(susäña)
- Arabic:مُدْمِن m(mudmin),مُدْمِنَة f(mudmina)
- Armenian:մոլ (hy)(mol)
- Asturian:adictu m,drogadictu m
- Bulgarian:наркома́н (bg) m(narkomán)
- Catalan:addicte (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:上癮的人 /上瘾的人(shàngyǐn de rén)
- Czech:závislák m,závislýadj
- Danish:addict (da) c
- Dutch:verslaafde (nl) m
- Esperanto:maniulo,toksomaniulo
- Estonian:sõltlane
- Finnish:riippuvainen (fi),väärinkäyttäjä,-himoinen,addikti (fi),narkomaani (fi),alkoholisti (fi)
- French:dépendant (fr) m,dépendante (fr) f,intoxiqué (fr) m, intoxiquéef,accrom orf(slang)
- German:Süchtiger (de) m,Narkomane (de) m
- Hebrew:מָכוּר m(makhúr)
- Hungarian:függő (hu)
- Icelandic:fíkill (is) m
- Indonesian:pecandu (id)
- Interlingua:narcomano,dependente
- Irish:andúileach m
- Italian:dipendente (it)
- Japanese:中毒者(ちゅうどくしゃ, chūdokusha)
- Kannada:ಅಳುಪು (kn)(aḷupu)
- Korean:중독자(中毒者) (ko)(jungdokja)
- Latin:dēpendēns m
- Macedonian:зависник m(zavisnik)
- Malay:penagih (ms)
- Maori:kiriwara,kaiwarawara
- Persian:معتاد (fa)(mo'tâd)
- Polish:nałogowiec (pl) m,uzależniony (pl) m
- Portuguese:viciado (pt) m,adicto (pt) m
- Romanian:dependent (ro) m,dependentă f
- Russian:зави́симый (ru)(zavísimyj),зави́симая (ru) f(zavísimaja),наркома́н (ru) m(narkomán),наркома́нка (ru) f(narkománka)(drug addict)
- Scottish Gaelic:tràill m orf
- Slovene:zasvojenec m,odvisnik m
- Spanish:adicto (es) m,viciado (es) m
- Swahili:mraibu (sw)
- Swedish:missbrukare (sv) c,narkoman (sv) c
- Tagalog:may-sugapa
- Turkish:bağımlı (tr),müptela (tr)
- Vietnamese:người nghiện
- Yiddish:אַדיקט m(adikt)
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addict (comparativemoreaddict,superlativemostaddict)
- (now rare)Addicted.
- (obsolete)Bound,tied to,obligated.
addict (third-person singular simple presentaddicts,present participleaddicting,simple past and past participleaddicted)
- (transitive, Ancient Rome) Todeliver (someone or something) following a judicial decision.[from 16th c.]
- (reflexive, now rare, archaic) Todevote (oneself)to a given activity, occupation, thing etc.[from 16th c.]
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1751,[Tobias] Smollett, chapter 88, inThe Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […],→OCLC:Having resided some time in this place, we returned to the other country-house which we had left, where lord B—addicted himself so much to hunting, and other male diversions, that I began to think he neglected me[…].
- (transitive, obsolete) Tobind (a person or thing)to the service of something.[16th–18th c.]
- (reflexive, obsolete) Todevote orpledge (oneself)to a given person, cause etc.[16th–19th c.]
- (transitive, now rare, archaic) Todevote (one's mind, talent etc.) to a given activity, occupation, thing etc.[from 16th c.]
January 19, 1754,Samuel Johnson,The Adventurer, number126:That part of mankind thataddict their minds to speculations.
- (transitive) To make (someone) become devotedto a given thing or activity; to cause to beaddicted.[from 17th c.]
a.1662 (date written),Thomas Fuller,The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published1662,→OCLC:His geniusaddicted him to the study of antiquity.
to cause to become addicted
to devote or dedicate oneself
Borrowed fromLatinaddictus or perhaps Englishaddict.
addict m (pluraladdicts,feminineaddicte)
- addict
addict (pluraladdicts)
- anaddict
addict (third-person singular simple presentaddicts,present participleaddictin,simple pastaddictit,past participleaddictit)
- toaddict
